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UPPER LIMB

BEFORE CLASS:  BACKGROUND AND PREPARATION
  1. Preview text chapters, lab manual, Powerpoint presentations, web resources
  2. Print out handouts for this section of course
  3. Bone Box--great for learning bones [link]
  4. Bones from the Bone Box with X-ray views to compare along with labels--great for seeing bones and x-rays [link]
  5. View digitized human limb movements--walking, jumping, stairs, elbow is great (needs video player installed) [link]

 

GOALS PRESENTATIONS ACTIVITIES
  1. Establish basic organizational plan for upper limb

  2. Learn details of bones, joints, nerves and muscles of upper limb

Upper limb anatomy and function

Anatomy of upper limb

WEB RESOURCES

Fractures--see types of fractures all over body in x-rays

Fun and fitness website--great simple line drawings on exaggerated weight-lifter bodies showing main muscle groups--good study aid, just click on the body regions on the navigation bar

Shoulder Movements and detailed muscle actions--nice simple interactive site

Surface Anatomy of the limbs [link]

Bone Box--great for learning bones [link]

Bones from the Bone Box with X-ray views to compare along with labels--great for seeing bones and x-rays [link]

X-rays with lots of details (from LUMEN) [link]

Best online collection of radiological images--x-rays, CT scans, angiograms (from LUMEN) [link]

 

DETAILED LEARNING OBJECTIVES
  1. Be able to identify and describe the bones and joints of the upper limb including pectoral girdle
  2. Analyze each joint of the upper limb, as well as the axial skeleton and know its principal anatomical components, what type of joint it is and what kind of movement it allows for.
  3. Know the vocabulary to describe all the different kinds of movements that can occur at the joints of the upper limb
  4. Identify origin, insertion, function and innervation of the muscles of the upper limb (shoulder, arm, forearm, hand)
  5. Practice locating and identifying various upper limb structures through their surface anatomy
  6. Diagram and follow the path of spinal nerves through the brachial plexus out to the muscles of the upper limb
  7. Diagram the path of sensory innervation from regions of the upper limb through the brachial plexus
  8. Predict the type of condition/impairment caused by nerve damage to main branches of brachial plexus
  9. Analyze the role of major muscle groups and the movement they initiate across the joints during different kinds of upper limb movements.

 

 

 


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